About Haisheng Zhang’s work
From April to October 1997, Haisheng Zhang held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. At the time, Zhang was based at the State Oceanic Administration.
Biography
Zhang Haisheng is the Dean of the Institute of Oceanography and the Principal Investigator of the Polar Research Team at Zhejiang University. He is the former Director of the Second Institute of Oceanography of the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Director of the Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem and Biogeochemistry of the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Executive Director of the Chinese Society of Oceanography, the Executive Director of the Chinese Society of Marine Environmental Sciences, and the Director of the China Ocean Mineral Resources Development and Research Association. Zhang's research interest is in marine geochemistry and marine environmental scientific research, and has carried out research on deep-sea mineral resources, deep-sea environment and resource exploration technology, and global environmental change around the coastal and offshore ocean, Antarctica and Arctic oceanic environment. In recent years, he has led projects such as detection technology of metallogenic environment and abnormal conditions of ocean solid mineral resources, monitoring of the earth environment and research of key biogeochemical processes in the South and Arctic regions of the National Polar Science and Technology Project.